The judge recalls that the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s, proven in an expert report in the case file, had already concluded that “the severity of the defendant’s clinical state had an impact on its ability to be present in trial but that this did not allow the suspension of criminal proceedings.”
Both judges have therefore rejected extinguishing or suspending the cases in which Ricardo Salgado is being tried.
Judge Helena Susano had already rejected the criminal proceedings against Ricardo Salgado around the year, near the beginning of the BES/GES case judgment, which judges the bench and the Espírito Santo group. At the time, the magistrate claimed that the former banker kept his defense rights despite Alzheimer’s diagnosis.
At the end of the last month, Salgado’s defense filed a request to request the filing of the case, due to the proven diagnosis of Alzheimer’s, in both proceedings, based on a sentence in the Castelo Branco Court, for an accused also diagnosed with dementia. In this request, the defense accused the justice not to be “blind to names” and to be made a-person [contra o homem].
“The same legal issue has been scandalously decided differently before the same factual framework in different processes. Let us be clear: all this only happens by the name of the defendant,” argued the former banker’s lawyers.